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REDECO Wroclaw Open 2012
19-22 Jan, Poland, $5k |
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22-Jan, Final:
[4] Peter Creed
bt [3] Eddie Charlton 11/7,
12/10, 11/9
'Braveheart' Creed
takes Wroclaw title
Final day of the tournament with Peter Creed (who earlier won
against nr 1 seeded Yann Perrin) and Eddie Charlton (who beat nr 2
seeded Bradley Hindle).
Creed "bought" hearts of audience during his quarterfinal match,
when he came back from 0-5 in final set. People called him "small
Peter with big hear" or even "Brave Heart".
He started final very well with 11-7 in first game. Charlton was
making too many mistakes in that game. However he started to play
match better in next one. Quite long game with lots of beautiful
shots, actions with "flying Peter" finally ended with 12-10 , so it
was 2-0.
Third game was very tight at the beginning, but in the middle Eddie
lost his concept of game and Peter was up a few points all the time,
up to 9-7. Charlton won two balls and it was 9-9. We expected him to
take over this game, but Peter played perfect kill straight into
nick in the first ball.
Matchball, long rally and Peter winning last ball, 11-9 this set and
whole match 3-0!
This is his first PSA title and he was very "moved" after this last
ball and also at the ending ceremony. He thanked his Mum and Dad who
helped him with his career.
Maciek Maciantowicz
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Photos by
Pawel Dziurzynski
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 Wroclaw
Open 2012
19-22 Jan, Poland, $5k |
Round One
19 Jan |
Quarters
20 Jan |
Semis
21 Jan, 20.00 |
Final
22 Jan |
[1] Yann Perrin (Fra)
11/7, 11/9, 11/9 (27m)
Declan James (Eng) |
[1] Yann Perrin
11/5, 11/9, 11/3 (28m)
[Q] Robert Downer |
[1] Yann Perrin
11/5, 11/9, 11/4
[4] Peter Creed |
[4] Peter Creed
11/7, 12/10, 11/9
[3] Eddie Charlton |
Adrian Dudzicki (Can)
11/7, 11/7, 11/5 (31m)
[Q] Robert Downer (Eng) |
Ben Ford (Eng)
5/11, 11/5, 11/9, 11/9 (37m)
[Q] Frank Hartkoren (Ned) |
Ben Ford
7/11, 11/4, 11/5, 7/11, 11/9 (46m)
[4] Peter Creed |
[Q] Alex Ingham (Eng)
6/11, 11/3, 11/8, 11/8 (36m)
[4] Peter Creed (Wal) |
[3] Eddie Charlton (Eng)
11/4, 11/7, 11/5 (21m)
Steve London (Eng) |
[3] Eddie Charlton
12/10, 11/4, 11/9 (28m)
Geoffrey Demont |
[3] Eddie Charlton
11/5, 10/6 rtd
[2] Bradley Hindle |
Geoffrey Demont (Fra)
9/11, 11/6, 11/4, 11/6 (36m)
[Q] Dan West (Eng) |
Bart Ravelli (Ned)
12/10, 11/9, 11/8 (33m)
Ben Coleman (Eng) |
Ben Coleman
11/5, 11/6, 11/5 (23m)
[2] Bradley Hindle |
Wijciech Nowisz (Pol)
3/5, 11/2, 11/3 (17m)
[2] Bradley Hindle (Mlt) |
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Qualifying:
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Qualifying Finals:
Alex Ingham bt
Martin Mosnik
3-2,
Daniel West bt Neeraj Aggerwal
3-2
Frank Hartkoren bt Arthur Moineau
3-1
Robert Downer bt Carsten Schoor
3-2Pfieuw late
one!! Won my two matches in qualifying today, first 3-0
second one pretty though,3-1 13-11 9-11 11-9 11-5.
Tomorrow first round!
@FrankHartkoren
Downer bt Schoor 13-11 in the 5th , after holding onto a
nosebleed through the 3rd and 4th and 5-10 down in 5th
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@EricDowner |
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Top seeds Poleaxed in Poland
 First
match with nr 1 seeded Yann Perrin against Peter Creed ended up with
surprise - we expected Yann to win , however it was not his day, and
Peter was playing amazing shots, getting impossible balls.
A lot of wonderful rallies and finally 3-0 with relatively easy sets
11-5, 11-9, 11-4.
 Second
match with nr 2 seeded Bradley Hindle against Eddie Charlton was
expected to be a real battle, but Charlton was definitely better
today.
He won first set 11-5 and was leading 10-6, when Bradley decided to
stop playing due to his injury not letting him play 100% of what he
would like to play.
Final of the tournament with Peter Creed and Eddie Charlton will be
start 7,30 pm.
Maciek Maciantowicz
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Photos by
Pawel Dziurzynski
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20-Jan, Quarters:
Top four through to Wroclaw semis
Today we had the quarter-finals of the Wroclaw Open, with the top
four seeded players all in action.
First match was easy (35min) win for French top seeded player
Yann Perrin. Young Englishman Robert Downer had no chance
against Yann this day.
Second one was a real battle of older , bigger and more experienced
Ben Ford and younger, smaller Peter Creed, great match with
lots of emotions.
Ford won first game after really long and tight game. Creed won next
two and it looked like he took over the match. However fourth set
was " point by point " up to 7-7 and then at the end of very long
rally , Peter hit Ben into his leg that caused a very long break.
Ben asked for longer break to have short massage of his leg and it
took something like 25 minutes break. Medial support helped Ben to
get back on court and get back to the game. He won this set and it
was 2-2.
Peter started last set very nervous, making easy mistakes while Ben
was playing all right shots. 5-0 up and it looked like he is heading
to an easy win in this game. Suddenly Peter started to play better
and better. Lots of nice rallies, beautiful shots, few "flying"
actions and he came back from this bad result into 7-7, then he had
10-8 and Ben saved first matchpoint, however Peter won next ball and
whole match 3-2, 11-9 in the fifth.
In third match Eddie Charlton won 3-0 against Geoffrey
Demont, however it was not that easy, especially in first set that
was very tight (12-10). Second one was a bit easier and third one
11-9, however Eddie had 5 matchballs starting
from 10-4.
Last match with second seeded Bradley "professor" Hindle was
relatively easy win for him against Ben Coleman 3-0.
This last name of Bradley was announced by audience yesterday during
his match in 1st round against polish champion Wojtek Nowisz when he
played like "professor". Every ball exactly to the right place -
that's why people called him this way.
Today he also played all shots very precise and Ben had no concept
how to beat him or at least could not realize it.
Tomorrow semifinals with Perrin playing Creed and Charlton playing
Hindle, starting 8pm.
Maciek Maciantowicz
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Salut Fram
Je me suis incliné en 3 jeux contre Eddie.
Plutôt satisfait de la façon dont j'ai joué, je bougeais bien à
l'avant donc des points positifs à retenir.
C'est ce genre de match qu'il me faut pour reprendre confiance en
mon jeu.
Yann est en demie, il n'a pas trop eu à forcer pour le moment et est
donc en forme pour aller jusqu'au bout.
Retour à Aix pour une bonne semaine d'entraînement avant de partir
en Inde dimanche.
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19-Jan, Round One:
Seeds through to Wroclaw quarters
No big surprises today - all 4 seeded players qualified to
quarterfinals.
Yann Perrin (nr 1) play against Declan James and it was really nice
and very tight match. 3-0, however all sets really close.
 Bradley
Hindle (nr 2) played Wojtek Nowisz (polish champion 2008, 2009 and
2010) , but it was not a long story - Wojtek started with 2-0 up
.... and that was it. 5-11, 2-11, 3-11.
Eddie Chartlon (nr 3) also played only 3 sets with Steve London
(4,7,5).
Last of the "top-4" Peter Creed had a bit longer battle - 3-1
against qualifier Alex Ingham.
Perrin will play Robert Downer, who won against Adrian Dudzicki 3-0,
Hindle will play Ben Coleman who won against Bart Ravelli 3-0,
Charlton will play Geoffrey Demont who played 4 sets against Daniel
West to finally win 3-1 and Creed will play Ben Ford, who won
against another qualifier Frank Hartkoren 3-1.
Maciek Maciantowicz
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19-Jan, Qualifying:
Poles out as Downer wins a thriller
Morning - 1st round
No big surprises a sall Poles are out:-)
Maybe small surprise of Carsten Schoor beating Karmatullah Khan 3-2,
after getting back from 0-2.
Evening - 2nd round
A lot of exciting matched in the 2nd round of qualification.
We started 7pm and 4th final qualification match ended appox
11:30pm!
Good 1st match between Alex Ingham and Martin Mosnik (3-2,
11-9 in the final for Ingham).
Very dramatic 2nd match of Dan West who came back from 1-2
down against Neeraj Aggraval, saved 2 matchballs in 5th to
finally win 13-11.
3rd match won by Hartkoren (Holland) vs Moineau 3-1.
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4th exciting match - Robert Downer (England) was leading 2-0
after relatively easy games, then his opponent Carsten Schoor
(Germany) leveled for 2-2.
And in the final game German was leading - 5-0 and 10-5...
...but...
Downer saved 5 matchballs in a row (from 5-10) plus next one at
10-11, and had his matchball at 12-11, saved by Schoor for 12-12.
Next two balls for Downer and finally 14-12 in 5th!
Maciek Maciantowicz
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